The fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, Stanley70 said:

it just baffles me the people, some in my family, are impressed by that bulls%$@ "He's not a politcian" they always say.

He's not even a good businessman. Everything's been handed to him on a silver. The perfect Boomer Nepo baby

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

41 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Maybe MAGA sees this as a good thing—get all the “libtard f***ots” out of the armed forces and replace them with born-hard patriots.

 

Edited April 12 by chasfh

[romad1]

On 4/11/2026 at 8:57 AM, Motown Bombers said:

 

Nixon leveraged the "mad bomber" thing pretty well to get out of Vietnam but had Kissinger doing his cold calculating thing to manipulate the rift between the PRC and Soviets.  Meanwhile, the people who have grifted and grifted and diddled and diddled do not have a move to make because nobody fears TACO.  

[Tiger337]

On 4/11/2026 at 8:57 AM, Motown Bombers said:

 

Just like Obama!  

[romad1]

btw, In Bruges is a bizonkers movie.  Enjoyed quite a bit and then saw the town.  Fun place. 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Yeah - that shoe had to drop eventually. It was a different matter as long as it was Iran blocking shipping, even if we were the proximate cause of them doing it, but once we block shipping directly, we become the agent in violation of all the rules based order we pushed on everyone else for 250yrs. Another example of this admin acting reflexively instead of thinking strategically - or thinking at all.

Edited April 13 by gehringer_2

[Tigermojo]

Now he has to TACO again and look weak again. 

[Dan Gilmore]

What a collection of incompetent, lazy thinkers, with no sense of their toxic and aggressive mix of ignorance and stupidity.

[oblong]

[pfife]

Thats the trump foreign policy for sure.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

people haven’t figured out yet that these weekly negotiation ‘breakthrough’ announcements are biggest market pump and dump going?

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

people haven’t figured out yet that these weekly negotiation ‘breakthrough’ announcements are biggest market pump and dump going?

And the dirty little secret is that far from being resentful of being manipulated, the market is all on the scheme. 

[Hongbit]

He’s the greatest there ever has been and the greatest there ever will be.  Forgot GOAT, he’s the Zeus of Con Men.  
 

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

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[romad1]

Noticed a comment elsewhere in the Michigan Men's BB thread about U-M's regents being "anti-semitic" which was read by me at roughly the same time as reading headline about Ohio University (not TOSU) students having a poll that was 86% against Israel.  Israel having just dragged the dumbest and most craven US Presidents into a war after failing to convince the previous several US Presidents to do the same.  Israel having just stomped all over the people who also claim their land who did horrible terroristic things.  

You can't conflate the two. 

The European Jewish people have the long history of oppression leading to the Holocaust.  The Holocaust happened.  It was horrible.  Beyond horrible.  As horrible as any of the 20th century's other horrors (i.e., Stalin's Holodomor and others, the Armenian genocide, Cambodia, all of Mao's horrors, Rwanda).  

Certain very powerful evangelicals trying to make Jesus come earlier and the manipulation of same by certain Israeli leaders is creating a horror all its own.  

People who have ethics and view the World (in its current form) as their project to reform and protect are naturally going to be against genocide.  

Edited 4 hours ago by romad1

[gehringer_2]

46 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Noticed a comment elsewhere in the Michigan Men's BB thread about U-M's regents being "anti-semitic"

I think Buddha is referring to one of the candidates running for election on the Dem side in 26, Amir Maklid - a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶ g̶e̶t̶s̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ A̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ o̶r̶ B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ -̶ ( my bad - Regents don't have to primary)- but  the guy had already lost his endorsement by the SEIU.

On the GOP side, I don't think I'd have any real lssue with Schostak, I don't know anything about Epstein but there is a good chance she's not an anti-semite.

It's a complex situation in the world right now. You have a traditionally discriminated against ethnicity/culture, which now has a nation state created in its name that has become a violent, repressive, apartheid practicing nation state. The subtlety is that unlike the case of most rogue nation states, we don't want to see them defeated, for instance as we would be happy to see happen to Putin's Russian kelpto-facist-state, we want them to be able to carry on but but just stop being a terrible national actor. That's a very murky position to be in.

Edited 4 hours ago by gehringer_2

[oblong]

Maklid beat out Acker, who had his own issues to deal with....

[gehringer_2]

53 minutes ago, oblong said:

Maklid beat out Acker, who had his own issues to deal with....

with Acker out I'd put my money on Brown and Schostak. Epstein is apparently a Trumper and I don't see Maklid getting the support of Alumni, who do most of the voting in a regent's election.